Claim · model-written summary
Lorantheae pollen with isopolarity, 3_syncolpate apertures and granulate exine may be primitive.
- Taxon
- LorantheaeLorantheaee0
- Outcome
- primitive typee0
- Qualifier
- isopolarity, 3_syncolpate apertures, and granulate exine ornamentatione0
Verbatim
e0“In the tribe Lorantheae, pollen grains with isopolarity, 3_syncolpate apertures, and granulate exine ornamentation may represent the primitive type”
Title
Pollen morphology of the Loranthaceae from China
Han Rong Acta Phytotaxonomica Sinica 2004
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Observation Exine features divided Loranthaceae into groups consistent with Elytrantheae and Lorantheae.
- Observation Elytrantheae pollen with 3_syncolpate apertures and blunt-tipped spiny, striate exine may be primitive.
- Observation Elytrantheae pollen with diplocolporate or diplosyndemicolpate apertures was considered derived.
- Observation Lorantheae pollen with heteropolarity, alternate apertures and scabrate or indistinct granulate ornamentation was considered derived.
- Observation Group I of Lorantheae comprised Dendrophtho, Scurrula, Taxillus and Tolypanthus.
- Observation Group II contained only Helixanthera.
- Observation Group III contained only Loranthus.
- Observation Group I was relatively primitive in pollen morphology.
- Observation Taxillus and Scurrula had insignificant pollen morphological differences.
- Observation Group II was relatively derived in pollen morphology.
- Observation Group III was relatively derived in pollen morphology.